How the Mail lies in the face of the facts
The Mail believes immigration is A Bad Thing.
It manipulates and twists figures to pretend that one in five killings is committed by immigrants.
Then when the Association of Chief Police Officers says the 'migrant crime wave' is a myth, what does it do? Quotes one single chief police officer and rigidly sticks to its story:
The evidence from the police is clear: Uncontrolled immigration has brought crime with it.
Britain's highest ranking black policeman, Mike Fuller, the Chief Constable of Kent, told the Government in a leaked letter that 'migration surges' had contributed to an increase of more than a third in violent crime over five years to 7,800 incidents in 2007.
See, a black said it (months ago), so they must be telling the truth! Forget about the ACPO report, there's one bloke we can call on to back us up!
Yes of course immigration brings crime, because immigrants are human beings - something the Mail often forgets. But do they commit proportionally more crimes than Brits? No, despite the Mail's best attempts to try and tell you they do.
Time for any lingering doubts over an anti-immigration agenda to be gone.
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April 17th, 2008 - 15:02
Great eh?
The Express’s front page headline today is IMMIGRANTS BRING MORE CRIME – with the ‘more’ underlined in red, and it opens with this:
“IMMIGRATION from Eastern Europe has led to a huge surge in crime, police chiefs will tell the Home Secretary today. “
How long before that one’s complained about?
April 17th, 2008 - 15:49
I did see that when I popped out for lunch earlier. The red underline is especially delightful, reminiscent of the classic ‘MIGRANTS TAKE ALL NEW JOBS’.
I guess tomorrow’s Express/Mail will be full of Jacqui Smith’s pledge to ACPO to give money to ‘deal with’ immigration (in the same week as pledging more police to deal with terrorism, is there an election on or something?) and therefore ‘exposing the truth at last of mass immigration’s enormous impact on public services’ de blah de blah de blah.
April 17th, 2008 - 19:30
Both the Mail and Express have gone for the Grauniad after yesterday’s report, both claiming that they’ve seen the actual ACPO report in full without quoting from it or really adding anything of any substance whatsoever to, err, the original Grauniad article. I’ll probably dissect this a little more later.